Tags: Cartoon, Hollywood Cartoon.
Thugs with Dirty Mugs is an eight-minute animated cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series produced by Leon Schlesinger released to theaters by Warner Bros. on May 6 1939. It was directed by Tex Avery written by Dave Monahan and animated by Sid Sutherland with musical direction by Carl W. Stalling.Its subject matter (movie gangsters) is a parody of Warner’s famous cycle of crime films starring such actors as James Cagney Humphrey Bogart George Raft and Edward G. Robinson.
